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Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *sakaʀu (“reef, shoal”) (compare with Tahitian aʻau (“coral reef”), Tongan hakau, Fijian cakau (“reef”))[1][2][3] Doublet of akau.
Noun
ākau
- reef
- coast (of seas), bank (of rivers)
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 27
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “hakau”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 2: The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 109-10
Further reading
- “ākau” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.